Organized by Association Strasbourg-Méditerranée with the help of Platforma space

Strasbourg, Nov. 21 – Dec. 5 2015

The Strasbourg-Méditerranée Festival proposes for its 9th edition the title Rêver la ville/Dreaming the city, which covers the vast topic of exploration of the political and social potential of cities – from occupied squares, producers of revolutions, to subjective mappings, at the intersection between arrivals, crossings and departures, where the towns and cities of Mediterranean Europe are, in the same time, dream destinations for migrants, spaces of discrimination or territories of continuous cultural remodelling.

Strasbourg bears the symbolical load of its geo-political role. For 18 years, the Strasbourg-Méditerranée Association has been exploring from various perspectives, through the festival which engages large portions of the city, sensitive subjects of migration and power play within the countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea.

In 2015 the city itself (from the urban generic to the geographically specific) becomes the theme and, by our present call for projects, a special invitation is extended to artists from Romania.

To answer the call, the only limitations are the ones implied by the concepts of the festival that you can discover in the text attached to the call. Proposals can be sent with no restrictions regarding means of expression: we expect anything from curatorial/exhibition concepts to performances, theatre productions, music/sound, film/video, including or not workshops and debates, etc. – coming from one person or from a group, made independently or through an association.

The selected proposal will have a top budget of 15.000 euros to be realized and/or presented/exhibited in the frame of the Festival (the budged is granted by the city of Strasbourg through the intermediary of the festival organizer, Association Strasbourg-Méditerranée)

The applications must be sent until April 17 2015, 12 pm (Romanian time) to the email festivalstrasbourg2015@gmail.com, in a single PDF document, in English or French. Please include the following documents:

Project proposal – maximum 3 A4 pages (including: theoretical fundament, description of project – with stages and needs for production, development of the project within/during the festival, suggested locations in Strasbourg may be included*)

* You can send proposals for projects happening (partially or in totality) in public space, but please consider climatic conditions (the festival takes place at the beginning of winter) and the fact that the city centre is heavily decorated for the holydays.

The suggested locations are preliminary (as they would be based on internet research at this stage) and can be addressed again once the project is selected. Usually the festival organizers discuss and select together with the artists the available venues or locations to best suit the needs of the projects.

CVs of participants (in the case of curatorial projects, or of projects done with bigger teams, the CVs of the main organizers, who would assume the coordination of the project, are sufficient). Maximum 2 A4 pages per CV.

Portfolio of participants – in PDF format for text/image, maximum 30 pages, or a PDF document with online link for film/video samples (maximum 20 minutes in total) or with online link to sound samples (maximum 20 minutes in total). Please check that the links function well before sending them and include passwords if links are password protected.

Budget proposal (including details and justifications of expenses), maximum 3 A4 pages. Following selection, this budget will be finalized together with the organizers of the festival.

For the budget proposal, consider:

Production costs and costs for buying the materials justified for making the project (if the project is a new production).

Artists’ fees.

Costs for transporting the works/components of the project from Romania to Strasbourg and back (if special transportation is needed) and for the eventual insurance.

Accommodation and transport fees for the persons installing or presenting the project, per diem for the period spent installing or presenting the project for the Festival in Strasbourg, estimated locations rentals for the project.

Please indicate also your other financial sources, and own contributions if they exist.

The Festival was always manifestly open to anti-discrimination and anti-instrumentalization discourses and it strongly encourages applications from persons who identify themselves as part of discriminated groups/social categories.

Following selection, the winning project will be announced in the first week of June 2015.